Glare exterminator



Sept. 24, 1929. K R

GLARE EXTERMINATOR Filed ec. 2. 1927 Patented Sept. 24, 1929 UNITED STATES LOUISE B. PARKER, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA GLARE EXTERMINATOR Application filed December 2, 1927. Serial No. 237,253.

This invention aims to provide a novel device which may be assembled with the projecting portion of a hat or cap, novel means being provided for holding the article on-the head of a wearer, for the purpose of shading his eyes.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a hat;

Figure 2 is a front elevation;

Figure 3 is a fragmental vertical section;

Figure A is a top plan;

Figure 5 is a plan of the visor, laid out fiat.

The device forming the subject matter of this application includes a body 1 made of any desired material, such as green celluloid. The body 1 tapers towards its ends, and is so shaped that when its upper edge is brought into a horizontal plane, and when the body is curved to conform to the brim of a hat, the body will slope downwardly and backwardly, as shown at 3. A binding 2, which may be made of tape ordinarily is secured about the entire edge of the body 1. A rearwardly extended flange 4 made of some material that has both strength and reasonable flexibility, is secured to the upper edge of the body 1, and, more specifically, to the binding on the upper edge of the body. The flange 4 may be made of oil cloth, and, preferably, it is of the same length as the body. A V-sha-ped recess 5 exists between the flange 4L and the inclined body 1, and into this recess is inserted the brim 6 of a hat, the edge of the brim abutting against the body 1, and the flange 4 resting on the upper surface of the brim, the device, thus, being supported on the hat-brim. Any suitable means may be supplied for holding the article on the hat. Thus, in one embodiment of the invention, there are loops 7 at the ends of the body 1, and with the loops 7, the ends of a retractile elastic band 9 are engaged, as shown at 8, the band being placed about crown 10 of a hat, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.

It is clear that the article may be mounted readily on a hat, and with equal facility be removed therefrom, the structure of the hat being in nowise altered. The translucent body 1 tempers the rays of light proceeding .through it, and the body also breaks the force of the air, if the wearer is riding or driving. A person provided with the device claimed may drive for a long period, or move about in a high light, without suffering eye fatigue.

Although the device has been shown mounted on a hat, it is almost needless to state that it can be used quite as well upon a cap, there being no occasion for a specific delineation of this application of the invention.

\Vhat is claimed is In a device of the class described, a body constituting an eye shade and provided at its upper edge with a rearwardly projecting flange extended unbrokenly from one end of the body to the other, the body slanting rearwardly and downwardly with respect to the flange, to define an angle for the reception of a hat brim, resilient retractile means connected to the ends of the device for exerting a pull in the same plane with the flange, thereby to keep a hat brim lodged in said angle, the aforesaid resilient retractile means pulling along converging lines to hold the device curved about a hat brim and to keep all portions of the flange overlapped on a hat brim, the aforesaid resilient retractile means constituting an anchoring means engaging the crown of a hat independently of the hat brim.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I hereunto set my hand.

LOUISE B. PARKER. 

